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  Alan - believe it or not there are people, many people who are community minded and do it without any thought of reward. They are only human so no doubt they enjoy being those 'in the know' and making decisions but if you understood the amount of work and responsibility you will see that is certainly is not for mythical free meals or to earn non-existent money.
  
  They get a lot of knocks, unjust critisism and some that is justified too and for very little in return. Whatever they do get out of it they deserve mark my words.
  
  The fact is it is not really a matter of power either. You would probably be shocked at just how little real power they have and how little room to manouvre and how few resources available. There is a lot of responsibility for little reward. People do these thing for many reasons, sometime just because they want to give something back and everyone who gets involved does so for whatever reasons. money and power ecrtainly are not reasons and given the knocking you get ego is no reason either.
  
  This is not unusual. These days I just do the Hellfire Corner weekends and Chamber of Commerce because I enjoy it, the latter does provide some business opportunities through networking but the benefit does not reflect the time involved - again in each case there is a lot of work from a small team and a lot of headaches and sometimes we do ask ourselves why we bother while others choose to sit back, do nothing and just have a go at those who do get involved.

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